G'day all, I've been having discussions with a small shop (single mainframe, 3 separate LPARs, no Sysplex) regarding best practices for DASD sharing. Their view is to share all DASD volumes across their 3 LPARs (Prod/Dev/Test) so their developers/sysprogs can get access to current datasets, but in order to do that, they'll need to use GRS Ring or MIM with the associated overhead. I don't know of any other serialization products, and since this is not a Sysplex environment, they can't use GRS Star. I suggested the idea of no GRS, keeping most DASD volumes isolated to each LPAR, with a "shared string" available to all LPARs for copying datasets, but it was not well received.
Just curious as to how other shops are handling this. TIA! Gord Neill | Senior I/T Consultant | GlassHouse Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
